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A senior officer in the D.C. National Guard deployed to Lafayette Square during a contentious night of protests on June 1 says U.S. Park Police used tear gas and other unnecessary, forceful tactics to disperse peaceful demonstrators.

A proposed development in DC would combine two UrbanTurf favorites: triangular lots and missing middle housing.

"It seems like we're just giving up and trying to yoga away our issues, or that we're gentrifying the area, but that's absolutely not true."

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Monday morning in favor of creating a new Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino. The bill passed by voice vote.

An order from D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) went into effect Monday that puts restrictions on anyone coming into Washington from a state that’s considered high-risk due to its coronavirus outbreak.

The giant yellow letters forming “Black Lives Matter” on D.C.’s 16th Street were given a fresh coat of paint early Monday morning, ahead of a funeral procession for the late Georgia congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.

After more than three years of fundraising and planning, a former Senate staffer’s brewery started construction last week near the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station in D.C.’s Edgewood neighborhood.

An Army National Guard officer who witnessed protesters forcibly removed from Lafayette Square last month is contradicting claims by the attorney general and the Trump administration that they did not speed up the clearing to make way for…

After announcing a mandatory two-week self-quarantine last week for travelers coming from areas with high levels of COVID-19, D.C. has deemed 27 states “high-risk.”

"What are the moms at school going to say about this?" Melissa Lavasani remembers thinking.

D.C. is requiring people making travel into Washington from more than half the United States to self-quarantine because of new surges in Covid-19 cases.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is ordering travelers into Washington from over half the country to self-quarantine due to a widespread escalation in new coronavirus cases.

The whipping post. The lynching tree. The wagon wheel. They were the stories of slavery, an inheritance of fear and dread, passed down from father to son.

Valerie Kindt wants to return to work full time. Kindt, the mother of a rising third-grade son, scaled back her hours to part time at an international nonprofit organization in April so she could guide her son through his daily four hours…

Cat videos have gloriously helped us pass the time ever since YouTube was invented.

Just five days after health officials announced the first case of Covid-19 in the D.C. area, Martha’s Table announced a major change to its strategy for promoting economic and food security among D.C. residents. We were going to give…

Like their public school counterparts, D.C.-area private schools are weighing safety and students’ needs in their reopening plans amid the pandemic. But some are finding the logistics less cumbersome, given their smaller classes and fewer…